Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
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Everything I write, I read aloud. It has to sound a certain way and look a certain way on page.
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Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.
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Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it.
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I love the physical act of writing as well as how I grow which each situation I put on the page.
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I didn't have any idea of what I was getting into by going away to college. And I was scared. I was scared of failing. I was scared of it not being for me because I was going to be one of the first people in my family to go off to college.
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Childhood, young adulthood is fluid. And it's very easy to get labeled very young and have to carry something through your childhood and into your adulthood that is not necessarily who you are.
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By the time I was in fifth grade, I was dreaming of the Pulitzer Prize.
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I write for whoever needs to read it.
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Being a Witness was too closed an experience. That's what I walked away from, not the things I believe.
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When I write, I don't think about messages for my readers.
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If someone has something they're really passionate about, that's their brilliance, and my big question is how do we grow that passion/brilliance and/or help them grow.
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My mom was a big fan of Al Green... James Brown we weren't allowed to listen to, so of course I knew James Brown.
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Until I was about 13, Manhattan had been a world seen from its edges.
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I rewrite a lot until I get the rhythm and story right on the page.